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    PixieDust release notes 1.1
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    Here's what's new in Release 1.1 (9 October 2017):
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    <strong>
     Bug fixes
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      Fixed an issue with datetime64 values. Previously, in the
      <code>
       display()
      </code>
      function's table view, datetime64 values in Pandas appeared as Unix timestamps. These date values are now properly displayed (
      <a href="https://github.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/pixiedust/issues/279">
       #279
      </a>
      ).
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      When importing PixieDust, it will no longer override an existing function named "display." In which case, users can still call PixieDust's display function using
      <code>
       pixiedust.display()
      </code>
      . If no pre-existing functions named "display" are found, then PixieDust will work as usual, allowing users to call display directly. (
      <a href="https://github.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/pixiedust/issues/455">
       #455
      </a>
      ).
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      New behavior when calling the display function on an unsupported entity. Instead of telling users that "No PixieDust visualization was found" when attempting to call
      <code>
       display()
      </code>
      on a data object that's not a PySpark or Pandas DataFrame, PixieDust now falls back to the IPython display method (
      <a href="https://github.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/pixiedust/issues/343">
       #343
      </a>
      ).
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      Mapbox user layers are fixed. Previously, PixieDust would break this feature because of changes to Python's geojson package (
      <a href="https://github.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/pixiedust/issues/453">
       #453
      </a>
      ).
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      Map visualizations no longer aggregate latitude-longitude data. Previously, PixieDust expected an aggregation function in this situation, making it difficult to simply explore points on a map (
      <a href="https://github.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/pixiedust/issues/410">
       #410
      </a>
      ).
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      Better handling of invalid API keys for map visualizations. Previously, if a maps API key was missing or invalid, PixieDust would display a black map. Now, it surfaces an error message to the user (
      <a href="https://github.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/pixiedust/issues/367">
       #367
      </a>
      ).
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    <strong>
     Enhancements
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      An alpha release of
      <strong>
       PixieApps web publishing
      </strong>
      is now live. Introduced in
      <a href="1-0-8.html">
       release 1.0.8
      </a>
      , PixieApps allow developers to run interactive UI elements, directly from notebook cells. Now with PixieApps' web publishing feature, the same interactive UI elements developed to run in-notebook can now be published as a web application at the click of a button.
      <a href="https://medium.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/deploy-your-analytics-as-web-apps-using-pixiedusts-1-1-release-d08067584a14">
       See the announcement blog
      </a>
      for more details (
      <a href="https://github.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/pixiedust/issues/450">
       #450
      </a>
      ).
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      Mapbox is now the default option for visualizing geospatial data on a map. Previously, PixieDust would choose Google maps by default, which requires additional configuration (
      <a href="https://github.com/ibm-watson-data-lab/pixiedust/issues/451">
       #451
      </a>
      ).
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